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If you are guided by opinion polls, you are not practicing leadership -- you are practicing followership.
Margaret Thatcher
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Margaret Thatcher
Age: 87 †
Born: 1925
Born: October 13
Died: 2013
Died: April 8
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Consensus is the absence of leadership.
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There is no such thing as society.
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Life in a free society...is heaven on earth to life in a socialist society such as Russia.
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I shall fight on, I shall fight to win.
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To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
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Please don't use the word tough. People might get the impression that I don't care. And I do care, very deeply. Resilient, I think.
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If you want to cut your own throat, don't come to me for a bandage.
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The choice facing the nation is between two totally different ways of life. And what a prize we have to fight for: no less than the chance to banish from our land the dark, divisive clouds of Marxist socialism and bring together men and women from all walks of life who share a belief in freedom.
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I'll stay until I'm tired of it. So long as Britain needs me, I shall never be tired of it.
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It's a funny old world.
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In a system of free trade and free markets poor countries - and poor people - are not poor because others are rich. Indeed, if others became less rich the poor would in all probability become still poorer.
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Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess. They always run out of other people's money. It's quite a characteristic of them.
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Ronald Reagan won the Cold War without firing a shot.
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I am not hard - I'm frightfully soft. But I will not be hounded
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The first step in calculating which way to go is to find out where you are.
Margaret Thatcher
You can present people with ideas they may come to believe in, and as a result of them they will act, if they have the opportunities. Presenting people with opportunities is part of what politics is about.
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I think Essex Man will vote for a Conservative Government.
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What happened in Russia in 1917 wasn't a revolution - it was a coup d'etat.
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The acid test of politics is not what you say at the hustings, but what you actually do in government.
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